Teaching English in the Two-Year College Sep 2008

Instructional Note: In Search of Another Way: Using Proust to Teach First-Year Composition

Janet Moser

Abstract

Rhetorically challenging literature can be made to serve the purposes of first-year composition in new ways. Excerpts from the novels of Marcel Proust that focus on the author’s characteristic scrutinizing, reflexive attention to style work successfully as models for assisting writers in acquiring the habits of reading and re-reading, and of writing, revisiting, and revising, which are essential to well-written prose.

Journal
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published
2008-09-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc20086786
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Topics
first-year composition multimodality multilingual writers voice and style

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